📚 Books

Author Arbinger Institute Genres Management Rating 💖💖💖🖤🖤 Date Finished 27/03/2026 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences An outward mindset starts from oneself. An outward mindset should be built incrementally. An outward mindset should be achieved without expecting to be reciprocated. 🎨 Impressions This book could have been a blog post. The core concepts can be explained in a few sentences and the bulk of the book is just a compendium of examples adapted to fit the theory. ...

Author Oliver Burkeman Genres Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 26/03/2026 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Time, attention and life are one and the same. Surrender the illusion of control. Accept that you can’t do everything. You will not experience most of life. 🎨 Impressions TBD. How I Discovered It Probably a Reddit or YouTube recommendation of a productivity “guru”. Who Should Read It? Found on my quest to optimize my time, to get the most out of it and to be as productive as possible. Needless to say that reading it was like a cold shower. When I placed it down after I had finished it, I reached a state of calm never achieved before. If you, like me, and like most people, are pressured to optimize your time, to get the most out of it, and to be as productive as possible every waking moment, then this is the book for you. It will recontextualize your approach to time, time management and life in general. This is the last “time management” book you will read. ...

Author Kevlin Henney & other Genres Software Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished 21/03/2026 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences To be a good programmer strive to always learn, improve and master your tools. To be a good programmer strive to be a good collaborator and treat others well. Sometimes there is no correct answer. Software is both technical and subjective. Beware of people who try to convince you of the opposite. 🎨 Impressions How I Discovered It This book is one that I discovered by myself in my quest to bridge the gap between Software Engineering and the other “more serious” Engineering practices. I wanted to know what other developers had to say on the matter and confront those insights with my own. ...

Author Marie Kondo Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 24/08/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Start by discarding by category. Then organize. Organization gives the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. Tidying is not the goal. Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day. 🎨 Impressions I love this book. I think “The life-changing magic of tidying up” and “Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living” are the only books on minimalism worth reading (from a practical point). ...

Author Jason Schreier Genres Business Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~2024 🎨 Impressions The book contains a few stories about indie game developer and a few stories about big game studios. I found the indie stories more interesenting and relatable since they are closer to my situation. How I Discovered It Looking for books about indie developers. Who Should Read It? Everyone interestend in how games are developed from a hollistic rather than technical point of view. There are a few stories about indie developers that I found more interesting, since a single person or a group of people making a game is more relatable than a company of hundreds of people. ...

Author Sönke Ahrens Genres Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~07/024 🎨 Impressions This review is shorter than usual because I think that I’m not the right target for this book. People who write a lot (and thus read a lot for research and reference) will benefit much more from implementing it’s contents. I was able to benefit from some of the techniques nonetheless. How I Discovered It Can’t remember. ...

Author David Kushner Genres History Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished ~07/2024 🎨 Impressions This review is shorter than usual because this is not the kind of books I usually read, and I don’t have anything worth saying. As a reader I don’t have any positive or negative to say about the book (being that it’s just a recollection of historical facts). But as an aspiring Indie Game Developer I think there is value in knowing how games were made in the old days and how their development evolved through the years. If you are in the same situation as me it might be an interesting read (also Blood, Sweat, and Pixels), otherwise you can skip it. ...

Author David Allen Genres Self Help, Productivity Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished 15/07/2024 Update 26/3/26 After reading Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals I have reduced my original review from 5 to 4. Not because this is a bad book, but because it promotes the wrong message that you can master time and get on top of things. In some ways you can, but only if you let go of the illusion of control and if you accept that you can’t do everything. ...

Author Fumio Sasaki Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖💖 Date Finished 01/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences Minimalism is about the important things Minimalism is personal Minimalism is about true happiness and peace of mind 🎨 Impressions I love this book. It’s probably one of my favourites in the genre. The book talks about: 55+12 rules to more easily become a minimalist; the personal experience of the author and some of the philosopy behind minimalism. So you will find helpful lessons and tips that you can apply to your Minimalist journey paired with decluttering wisdom of the author. ...

Author Daniel Coyle Genres Self Help Rating 💖💖💖💖🖤 Date Finished 12/01/2024 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences There are no prodigies. Only cultivated talent and practice. Practice with intention (slow down, exagerate moves, introduce challenges). Hard Skills (kicking a ball) vs Soft Skills (reading the field). 🎨 Impressions A bit too short. Some chapters could have benefited from a few more words. How I Discovered It I had it in my TODOs for a while, I don’t remember. ...